If your Wordle streak has gotten a little too easy, Hurdle is the game that will humble you fast.
Unlike its single-puzzle cousin, Hurdle stacks five rounds back to back. Get the first word right, and instead of starting fresh, the game feeds that answer straight into your first guess for round two. Depending on the words involved, that carryover can hand you a useful head start or almost nothing at all. By the time you reach the fifth and final hurdle, every previous answer sits on the board with its correct and misplaced letters marked, turning the last puzzle into a kind of cumulative memory test as much as a word game.
One detail trips up a lot of first-time players. The number of times a letter shows up highlighted across earlier guesses does not necessarily tell you how many times that letter appears in the final answer. Treat repeated highlights as a hint, not a guarantee.
If you're the type who prefers solving it cold, a decent approach is to burn your early guesses on words packed with common vowels and high-frequency consonants, the same strategy that works in Wordle, then lean harder on the carryover clues once you hit round two. Because a wrong guess in Hurdle doesn't just cost you a turn, it can also throw off the information you're relying on for the next round, so it pays to be a little more conservative with speculative guesses than you might be in a standalone puzzle.
For players who genuinely get stuck, the smartest move is usually to step away for a few minutes rather than burn through guesses in frustration. The puzzle resets daily, so tomorrow brings a clean slate regardless of how today's five rounds go.